culbuter
\kyl.by.te\
The verdict
“culbuter” is uncommon French (frequency #79,196 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,196
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une culbute ; tomber de soi-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-culbuter · culbuter · French
culbuter · rank #79,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,196
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH culpabilisant
Nearest frequency peer: culpabilisant (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « culbuter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- creep
creep
20,808 corpus weight
- critics
critics
20,807 corpus weight
- culbuter
culbuter
20,805 corpus weight
- culpabilisa…
culpabilisant
20,804 corpus weight
- cuma
cuma
20,803 corpus weight
- cumulatifs
cumulatifs
20,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « culbuter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culbuter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kyl.by.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « culbuter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
culbuter is uncommon French at frequency #79,196 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kyl.by.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for culbuter, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is culbuter, spelled C-U-L-B-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une culbute ; tomber de soi-même.
- 2Faire tomber quelqu’un ou quelque chose, renverser.
- 3Faire l’amour, posséder sexuellement.
- 4Rejeter en désordre.
- 5Retourner une feuille sur la même forme après l'avoir tiré à blanc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how culbuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce moment, les chiens se jetèrent de côté, le traîneau fut culbuté et le couple précipité dans la neige.
. Une flamme d’enfer avait embrasé un instant la rue, la poussière et la fumée furent telles, que les quelques passants aveuglés hurlèrent d’épouvante, dans le saisissement de cette fournaise où ils croyaient culbuter.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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